The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-08-04

10 go over 10 ask AUsllE. Ii InSy WANT CO |
know how the sun and the moon halted, |
they have only to go over and ask Joshua. |
If they want to know how the storm.
pelted Sodom, they have only to go over |
and ask Lot. If they want to know
more about the arrogance Of Haman, |
they have only to go over and ask
Mordecai. If they want to know how
the Red sea boiled when it was cloven,
they have only'to go over and ask Moses. |
If they want to know the particulars
about tina Bethlehem advent, they have
only to 60 over and ask the sereslading
angels who stood that Christmas night
in the balconies of crystal. If they want
to know more of the particulars OF the
cruxfxion, they have only to SO over
and ask those who weye personal specta-
tors while the mountains crouched and
the heavens got black in the face at the
spectacle. II they want to know more
about the sufferings Of the Scotch Cove
nanters, they have only to go over and
ask Andrew Melville. Ii they want to
know more about the old time reyivals
they have only to go over and ask White
field, and Wesley, and Livingston, and
Fletcher, and Nettleton, and Finney. O!
what place to visit in.
If eternity were one minute shorter it
would not be long enough for such soci-
ality. Think Of cur friends who in this
world were passionately fond of flowers
turned into paradise! Think of our
friends who were very fond Of Rising
superb fruit turned into the orchard
where each tree has twelve kinds of fruit
at once, and bearing the fruit all the
year roundi
What are our departed Christian
friends doing in heaven. those who on
earth found their chief joy ia the Gospel
ministry? They are visiting their old
congregations.
Most of those ministers have got their
people around them already. When /
get to heaven-as by the grace Of God l
am destined to go to that place. viii
come and see you all. Yea, viii come
to all the people to whom have admin
istered in the gospel, and to the millions
of souls to whom, through the kindness
of the printing press, / am permitted to
preach every week i'll this land and in
other lands-letters coming from New
Zealand and Australia, and utternost
parts of the earth, as well as from near
nations, telling me of the souls / have
helped-I viii visit them all. | give
them fair notice. Our departed friends
of the ministry engaged in that delectable
entertainment row,
But what are cur departed Christian
friends who in all departments of useful
ness were busy, finding their chief JOY in
doing gaQd-what are they doing now:
Going right on with the work. John
Howardsvisiting dungeons; the dead wo-
men of northern and southern battle fields
still abroad looking for the wounded;
George Peabody still watching the poor;
Thomas Clarkson still looking after the
enslaved--all of those who did good on
earth buster since death than before.
The tombstone not the terminus but
the starting post. What are our de-
parted Christian friends who found their
chief Joy in studying God doing now?
Studying God yet. No need of revela-
ton now, for unblanched they are
face to face. Now they can handle
the omnipotent thunderbolts Just as
a child handles the sword of a father
come back from victorious battle. They
have no sin, nor fear consequently.
Studying Christ, not through revela-
lation, save the revelation of the scars,
that deep lettering which brings it all
up quick enough. Studying the Christ
of the Bethlehem caravansary, the Christ
of the awful massacre with its hemOr-
rhage. of head and hand and foot and
side-the Christ of the shattered mauso-
leum-Christ the sacrifice the star, the
sun, the man, the God man, the man
God.
But bark! the bell of the cathedral
rings-the cathedral bell of heaven.
What is the matter now2 There is
going to be great meeting in the temple
Worshippers all coming through the
aisles. Make room for the conqferoP
Christ standing IN the temple. All
heaven gathering around Him. Those
who loved the beautiful come TO look at
the Rose Of Sharon. Those who loved
music come to listen to His VOICE Those
who We're nathematieians come to count
the years of His reigrt those who were
explorers come TO discover the hlfight and
the depth and the length and the
! breadth of his love. Those who
had the military spirit on earth
sanctifed and the military spirit in
heaven come to look at the captain of
| their salvation. The astronomers come
| TO look at the morning star. The men OF
the law come to look at Him who is the
judge of quick and dead. The men who
| healed the sick come to look at Him who
was wounded for our transgressions.
All different, and different forever, in
many respects, Jet all alike in admiration
| for Christ, in worship for Christ, and all
alike in joining in the dozology, unto
| Him who washed US from our sins in his
own blood, and made us kings and priests
unto God, to Him be glory in the church
throughout all ages. world without end!'
| Amen =